adjective
oktō
Strong’sG3638
eight
stem oktō-8 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books0 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὀκτώ, οἱ, αἱ, τά,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3638 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidok-to'
"eight"
Froma primary numeral;
King Jameseight.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Boeotian dialect ὀκτό Refs 3rd c.BC+, Heraclean hοκτώ Refs, Elean ὀπτώ Refs 5th c.BC+:— indeclinable, eight, Refs 8th c.BC+ H. (Cf. Sanskrit a[snull][tnull]ā´ a[snull][tnull]áu, Latin octo, Gothic ahtau, etc.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō |
| object accusative | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō | ||
| direct address vocative | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō |
| to, for dative | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō | oktō |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
oktō8×
Luke 2:21Kai hote pimplēila hēmerais oktō teu peritemara auton, kai kalita tem …When the eight days before His circumcision had passed …
Luke 9:28… meta toin logoin houtoin hōsei hēmerais oktō kai paralabarantos Petron kai Iōannon kai …About eight days after Jesus had said these …
Luke 13:16“eight”… data tos Satanos idou deka kai oktō eteim, ouk date luira apo tou …Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage …
John 5:5“eight”ate de tinos anthrōpos ekei triakonta oktō eteim echarōntos en ta asthenia autou;One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
John 20:26Kai meta hēmerain oktō palin ale esō tois mathētois autou …Eight days later, His disciples were once …
Acts 9:33… anthrōpon tinon onome Aineon ek eteiu oktō katakeiorōnton epi krabattou, hos ate paraluorēntos.… had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
Acts 25:6… de en autoi hēmerain ouk polloterain oktō ē deka, katabainarantos eis Kaisareian, ta …After spending no more than eight or ten days with them, Festus …
1 Peter 3:20… kibōtau eis han oligois, houtem atō oktō psuchais, diasōzila dia hudeu.… the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.